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Short posts and notes.

• Claiming clairvoyance. (via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal )

• The World's Best Commercials, 2010-11 | Adweek

  [ The World’s Best Commercials, 2010-11 Adweek ]( http://www.adweek.com/cannes-lions-2011/worlds-best-commercials-2010-11-132944)

• Reading Highlights: Meltdown

  Here are a few of my reading highlights from the Foreign Policy article Meltdown, by Gennady Burbulis and Michele A. Berdy, an exciting account of the August...

• Hidden cameo in Indiana Jones: C-3PO & R2-D2??!? cepankus :…

• Broccoli House brockdavis : Broccoli House I couldn’t build a tree house for…

• The first weapon made from code. Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus (by…

• How travel writing becomes literature

  William Zinsser on what it takes for travel writing to move from a personal narrative into the realm of literature.

• Hang on Woody! (by nplus1 )

• The Easiest Way to Succeed as an Entrepreneur Altucher Confidential

  Some people don’t mind starting a company without any customers. I’m too conservative for this. I’m happy to even give up equity to get that first customer. ...

• This map is drawn using data of the connections of 10 million Facebook…

• Finding Celopatra

  National Geographic has an interesting article about some recent findings in the search for the real Cleopatra.

• Death in the Movies

  Judy Bachrach, writing for Obit Magazine has a piece, Death Be Not Chic, on how Hollywood deals with death, in comparison to people’s real experience of it. ...

• Past Picture Picture in the Present

  Dear Photograph is a website with a simple premise: take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.

• Note to entrepreneurs: Your idea is not special | Entrepreneurial

  It’s awesome when an entrepreneur is obsessed with his idea. Every great product that I’m aware of came from an obsession of an idea and every great company ...

• 101 Marketing Quotes

  101 Awesome Marketing Quotes

• Heavy sentences by Joseph Epstein

  The following quotes are from Joseph Epstein’s book review in the New Criterion on Stanley Fish’s book “How to Write a Sentence. Epstein, throughout his revi...

• Luckiest tennis shot ever. Kim Clijsters LUCKY SHOT French Open (by…

• Learn to steal like an artist (via How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other…

• Kinect Hackers: unlocking new possibilities in robotics

  Microsoft’s Kinect is letting hardware and software hackers (the good kind) discover new possibilities in robotics.

• Geek Alphabet (via ABC by *yllya )

• (via Work Smarter and More Easily by “Sharpening Your Axe” )

• bestrooftalkever : The zeppelin Hindenburg floats past the Empire State…

• Diagram of geek culture: it’s a big world out there. (via HBO Programming…

• Arty Bollocks Generator

  Arty Bollocks Generator

• Comic Sans Criminal - There's help available for people like you!

  Comic Sans Criminal - There’s help available for people like you!

• Author Vs. Author

  Flavorwire has a collection of 30 of the harshest author to author insults. My favorites are the ones where I’m familiar with both the insult-or and the insu...

• Post-Artifact Books and Publishing

  Post-Artifact Books and Publishing

• Zinsser's Relationships

  William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well, discuses the use of the word relationship to describe the everyday interactions with the people in our lives:

• Game: Sinuous

  This is a simple game that won the grand prize in the 10k Apart contents, that challenged developers to come up with a web-app that took less than 10 kilobyt...

• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue…

• Sad Vador “An actor dressed as Darth Vader waits for tourists who want to be…

• Coffee vs. Tea Infographic

• This up to 1000 years old snow has metamorphosed into highly pressurized…

• Statue of Soviet US Superheros

  A group of pranksters in Bulgaria painted a statue of soviet soldiers to look like a group of All American Superheros.

• denverpost : New Dietary Guidelines -The Post’s Mike Keefe, June 12, 2011

• Mark Twain

  Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from t...

• Seth’s Blog: The last minute (a case against brinksmanship)

  Either you negotiate to make the whole bigger, to have both sides benefit–or you negotiate to have the other side lose. Winning by punishing the other side i...

• Daily *ism: Surrealism

  Today’s Daily *ism is another artistic (revolutionary) movement that came out of the modernist period:

• How do you get this business card? (via Hello | The Indigo Bunting: Pretty…

• 5 Lessons from IBM

  They’ve made it 100 years, so must be doing something right. Here’s the flash notes, click through for the details:

• DVDLater - Save Theater Movies to your Netflix Queue

  DVDLater - Save Theater Movies to your Netflix Queue

• Reading Highlights: June 5 to June 20

  Here’s the most recent edition of my reading highlights, passages of posts and books that I’ve highlighted on my Kindle.

• We are not running out of space. (via If the world’s population lived in one…

• Super Cut: Other actors being Woody Allen. NOTE: This is only funny if you…

• Daily *ism: Socialism

  Here’s a political system that’s bringing down many parts of Europe. It’s also one that has to go by many other names, since its popularity is sagging, and i...

• Daily *ism: Humanism

  Today, I’m going to bring up a school of philosophy.

• Scenes From Underground

  Scenes From Underground

• thetenthamendment : “The powers not delegated to the United States by the…

• Woody and Buzz Lightyear as reimagined by designer Luis Eduardo Vargas…

• Daily *ism: Manorialism

  Here I’m taking us back to an outdated political system. I’m not aware of any active political movements trying to bring it back.